"bar against" is a common phrase used in English and is perfectly acceptable for written English.
Generally, it is used as an idiom to mean "to take precautions or measures to prevent" something from taking place: The school board has implemented several measures to bar against bullying in the classroom.
But even without it there is no bar against pilfering MPs from opposition parties.
We find no constitutional bar against excluding farmers and stockmen from the criminal statute against combination and monopoly, and so holding, we conclude that there was likewise no bar against making the exemption partial rather than complete.
Because "stuff happens," perfection can't be the bar against which we gauge performance and well being.
They look marvellous clustered in groups by the bar against the canary-silk walls.
3.08pm GMT No goals yet - but Kidderminster have rattled the bar against Peterborough!
Absent a bar against anticompetitive discrimination, carriers could stop competing GPS or mapping applications from running on their networks.
They tried to get a temporary bar against the cuts and will try again with an appellate judge on Friday.
The verdict in such a case was unquestionably final, and could be raised in bar against any further prosecution for the same offense.
He will also be subject to a ten-year bar against his return, likely forcing him to spend a decade deprived of his wife, children, and community.
Paragraph 5 for the latter, describing the bar against the receipt of salary for Government work from a private source, does not apply to special Government employees.
Carving out an exception to its per se bar against application of the exclusionary rule in parole revocation hearings, see Commonwealth v. Kates, 452 Pa.
